psd tga, etc. preview in vista 64-bit

breakneck · Oct 2008

this has probably been discussed before but i'm having a hard time finding a simple fix:
what do i need to do to be able to preview .psd/.tga files in the file viewer(explorer) of vista 64-bit?

Michael Knubben · Oct 2008

For thumbnails, use this: http://www.koshigaya.de/?content=tools&view=5
Tga, psd and png thumbnails.

For quick image viewing: Xnview, Irfanview or ACDSee (the latter of which isn't free, and has gotten to be quite bloated, I believe)

breakneck · Oct 2008

http://www.koshigaya.de/?content=tools&view=5
doesnt seem to work w/ vista 64-bit. i tried to install anyways but no luck. any other options?

nezach · Oct 2008

If you install the DirectX SDK you can view .tga thumbnails in Vista 64. Not .psd though

Michael Knubben · Oct 2008

Breakneck: Oh, I didn't realise that. You might try Thumbplug TGA and see if that works, but I'm afraid it wont. It doesn't expressly mention Vista, and in the comments someone mentioned that it doesnt work for windows xp Pro (x64), so it's a slim chance. It's opensource though, so someone might have created a vista64-compatible build?

Michael Knubben · Oct 2008

oh, you might have more luck with this one: http://www.uproar-interactive.com/tools.html

It's based on thumbplug tga, but ads a few formats. Since it's done by a tech artist at a company, maybe they also got it to run on 64-bits windows?

Good luck with it! It's such a timesaver to be able to see thumbnails for these formats

East · Oct 2008

For what it's worth, the program that MightyPea linked to (thanks!) works on my 64 bit XP install.

breakneck · Oct 2008

another fail. . . thanks for the efforts. i'm still looking . . .

Pope Adam · Oct 2008

keep looking!

breakneck · Oct 2008

you need it too adam? i have had little luck. still on the hunt

Chai · Oct 2008

MightyPea wrote: »

For thumbnails, use this: http://www.koshigaya.de/?content=tools&view=5
Tga, psd and png thumbnails.

For quick image viewing: Xnview, Irfanview or ACDSee (the latter of which isn't free, and has gotten to be quite bloated, I believe)

Surprisingly I'm using Acdsee 2.42 (that's 9 years old) on my vista 64bit, and it previews everything still fine

You can get the old version, from oldversion.com :
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=acdsee

pior · Oct 2008

Chai, are we talking about the same thing? I think we mean thumbnail previews within Windows folders. Or maybe ACDSee installs the right thing for this? Can't remember.

Chai · Oct 2008

pior wrote: »

Chai, are we talking about the same thing? I think we mean thumbnail previews within Windows folders. Or maybe ACDSee installs the right thing for this? Can't remember.

Ah sorry, was replying to mightpea's post.
Though ACDSee comes with its own image explorer which I use to view thumbnail previews.

Ott · Oct 2008

Has anyone else found anything for this? I can't for the life of me find anything out there that works either

StefLeFlou · Dec 2008

I found a solution who works !!!

Create a shortcut on desktop and name it as "windows explorer (32 bit)"
1) Right click on desktop
2) click on >New> Shortcut
3) type in the path without quotes "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe /separate"
4) navigate to photo folder which contains psd photo

Ott · Dec 2008

Ok, I get this PM from someone with 0 posts on the forum, and am kind of lost as to the translation of what this means:

Hi !

For thumbnails preview psd in vista 64-bit

Create a shortcut on desktop and name it as "windows explorer (32 bit)"
1) Right click on desktop
2) click on >New> Shortcut
3) type in the path without quotes "C:WindowsSysWOW64explorer.exe /separate"
4) navigate to photo folder which contains psd files

be sure to do the psicon.dll trick before !

Can anyone decipher this, or tell me in better English exactly what to do? Or if this would even work? What is this psicon.dll trick?

/confused

Reverenddevil · Dec 2008

Here is what i use. Read the post and follow the instructions. Don this is what the guy was trying to tell you but you dont knwo where it begins so its tough to understand. It works for me so enjoy...

http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8028

malcolm · Dec 2008

Question for acdsee users, has anyone found a way to view .dds textures in acdsee? I have no idea why this still hasn't been included in their latest release of their now bloated unusable image viewer.

butt_sahib · Dec 2008

another question. is there a program i could use that shows images and i can also check out their RGB values? I have to have either PS or max open for that, and id like a program which is obviously simpler/quicker

Conor · Dec 2008

butt_sahib wrote: »

another question. is there a program i could use that shows images and i can also check out their RGB values? I have to have either PS or max open for that, and id like a program which is obviously simpler/quicker

This is what you want - http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/36126/14593

Just drag the color picker anywhere on the desktop and it will grab that color.

hyrumark · Dec 2008

Here's how to enable the 32 bit version of Windows Explorer on 64 bit systems, from Microsoft's website, scroll down a bit to where it says "workaround" for the instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895561

This should let you use all the thumbnail viewing utilities that don't work with the 64 bit version of windows explorer, as well as some right click shell extensions too.

breakneck · Dec 2008

hyrumark: well shit, this works!!
i installed: http://www.uproar-interactive.com/tools.html
then follow the work around and works like a charm.
Only bad thing is that you have to generate a run command each time.
i will try to make a short cut on my desktop for this! <-- if anyone could help me with this that would be awesome.

Finally! thanks!

Ott · Dec 2008

From the Microsoft site:

Control Panel icons
To work around the issue of the Control Panel icons, follow these steps. This workaround lets you open an x86 Control Panel item when the program icon is not displayed in the View x86 Control Panel Icons item in Control Panel.

Click Start, click Run, type the following in the Open box, and then click OK:
Drive_Letter:windowssyswow64control.exe file_name.cpl
Note The placeholder Drive_Letter represents the drive where the x64-based version of Windows is installed. The placeholder file_name represents the name of the x86 Control Panel item that you want to open.

I honestly don't understand what "the x86 Control Panel item that you want to open" means.

I haven't tried the Uproar app...it works for Vista 64?

mysticcoder · Mar 2009

MysticThumbs plugin generates PSD, DDS & TGA thumbnails for XP & Vista 32 and 64 bit. Works perfectly and doesn't require any hacks:

http://mysticcoder.net/mysticthumbs

breakneck · Mar 2009

well son of a bitch!!! a big thumbs up really! I've been using a stoopid hack with a modified shortcut which worked about 20% of the time. This works perfect so far!!!

kite212 · Mar 2009

thanks for the link it rocks!

PolyHertz · Mar 2009

mysticcoder wrote: »

MysticThumbs plugin generates PSD, DDS & TGA thumbnails for XP & Vista 32 and 64 bit. Works perfectly and doesn't require any hacks:

http://mysticcoder.net/mysticthumbs

Sweet! Was looking for something like this quite a while back with no success. Thanks

MoP · Mar 2009

awesome, thanks for posting.
i will let you know if it works on XP 64

Kawe · Mar 2009

it works (Vista64)! thanks a lot

PolyHertz · Mar 2009

MoP wrote: »

i will let you know if it works on XP 64

It does for me, that's one of the things that makes it so awesome

mysticcoder · Mar 2009

MoP wrote: »

awesome, thanks for posting.
i will let you know if it works on XP 64

Glad you guys like

For sure let me know if XP 64 works or not (I suspect it will).

Also - I'm updating it with more formats and stability fixes periodically (there was a locking bug in XP now fixed for example)

Tell all your friends

wailingmonkey · Mar 2009

thanks for sharing your work, mysticcoder.

version 1.2 didn't work for me in Vista 64 Ultimate, but your 1.3 update
works great! (tried to send emails to both the email in your readme.txt
and the one from your website and both bounced, by the way).

cheers!

gaganjain · Mar 2009

I try to install v1.4on vista sp1 64bit it gave this error while instaling

Slainean · Mar 2009

I got the same error with the same OS as gaganjain, and it didn't work after a restart, unfortunately. I may or may not be doing something wrong.

MoP · Mar 2009

I get the same error as gaganjain trying to install the x64 msi on WinXP 64.

Microneezia · Mar 2009

same errorz! dag nabit!

carlo_c · Mar 2009

same error here

Been looking for this feature since i installed vista x64, really miss it lol

Ott · Mar 2009

Running Vista64 and tried both versions of the Mystic Installer. x86 installed fine, but didn't do anything to my thumbs.

Uninstalled, and did the x64, got the same error as everyone else.

It's pretty ridiculous that Vista doesn't have this by default. ><

mysticcoder · Mar 2009

Ott wrote: »

Running Vista64 and tried both versions of the Mystic Installer. x86 installed fine, but didn't do anything to my thumbs.

Uninstalled, and did the x64, got the same error as everyone else.

It's pretty ridiculous that Vista doesn't have this by default. ><

Hi everyone.

Sorry about the install problem. x64 setup was using the x86 D3DX library which caused a registration fault.

Please download the v1.5 and try again. Should be all ok now.

Let me know if you have further problems. I know how frustrating it is to not have any thumbs

Ott · Mar 2009

Installed and working! This is great, thanks!

gamedev · Mar 2009

Just grabbed the latest installer for x64. Had to reboot and change a few folder settings, but things are working well. Thanks again!

-Tyler

ColinR · Mar 2009

Works a treat. Thank you very much.

Might take some time getting used to the fact I can now see .psd's previews in the browser window. A luxury you could say!

bounchfx · Mar 2009

works awesome for me. Thank you!

nezach · Mar 2009

Works like a charm on my Vista x64 Ultimate. Thanks!

Illusions · Mar 2009

Thanks so very much Mystic, worked excellently after a reboot on my Vista x64 Home Premium system...

Xoliul · Mar 2009

Thanks a lot man, I was looking for something like this ever since I got Vista.
The only thing I would appreciate is, if there would be some way to discern between tga and psd thumbnails, since in my case identical looking versions of these usually sit in the same directory.

onthenetdollars · Mar 2009

http://mysticcoder.net/mysticthumbs is down

what's happened in 3 days

can anyone help me get this file, I need to view my psd's

Many thanks in advance

PolyHertz · Mar 2009

Is it just me or does this program lock every psd and tga pic it makes a thumb of?

gaganjain · Mar 2009

PolyHertz wrote: »

Is it just me or does this program lock every psd and tga pic it makes a thumb of?

Can tell more about problem in detail..
Lock in what way ?

ArtsyFartsy · Mar 2009

works great on vista x64 ultimate.

Xoliul wrote: »

The only thing I would appreciate is, if there would be some way to discern between tga and psd thumbnails, since in my case identical looking versions of these usually sit in the same directory.

I second this. Or if this is too difficult to implement, then an option to disable certain file types from showing thumbs. I usually am very familiar with the various .psd and don't need to see their thumbs.

PolyHertz · Mar 2009

gaganjain: well it locks them in the sense that the files cant be moved or deleted. Tried updating to the newest version with no change too.

psd tga, etc. preview in vista 64-bit

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